It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.

In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

Never regret on something you can fix.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.